Edward Snowden has received a three-year residency permit from Russia. <\/p>\n
The ex-US intelligence contractor's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena confirmed the news today (August 7) <\/p>\n
Fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden given 3-year residency permit by Russia http:\/\/t.co\/tLKcbHcv6g<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ySuvUvASBI <\/p>\n Last year, Snowden secured refugee status in Russia having previously been holed up in Sheremetyevo airport. <\/p>\n Snowden fled the US after revealing details about the US government's controversial PRISM surveillance programme. <\/p>\n The whistleblower gave Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message for 2013, where he argued that privacy is important because it is \"what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be\". <\/p>\n Earlier this year, incoming NSA chief Admiral Michael Rogers downplayed the significance of Snowden's revelations about the spy agency. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n See more here: Edward Snowden has received a three-year residency permit from Russia. The ex-US intelligence contractor's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena confirmed the news today (August 7) Fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden given 3-year residency permit by Russia http:\/\/t.co\/tLKcbHcv6g<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ySuvUvASBI Last year, Snowden secured refugee status in Russia having previously been holed up in Sheremetyevo airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-snowden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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